LONG POND, Pa. — Jeff Gordon's final pre-race news conference at Pocono Raceway was in full session Friday afternoon when a loud noise came from the doorway leading into the media center.That loud noise was the fans buzzing for photos and autographs, as...

DAYTONA BEACH — With security guards watching for suspicious activity, Dave Shepherd had some explaining to do Friday. What was the contraption bulging out of his backpack?"A piece of a dashboard from my Jeff Gordon Monte Carlo," he said.That put him...

With NASCAR's season just a month away, a few drivers are still adjusting to new teams and several crew chiefs are adjusting to new drivers.The most notable change in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series – which opens with the Daytona 500 on Feb. 22 – is Carl...

MIAMI — NASCAR has always been about families. Families that stay together. Families that break up.Look around the garage on any Sunday and you will see the effects of those fractured relationships.Ryan Newman was deemed expendable by Stewart-Haas...

Ryan Newman may be considered an interloper among contenders for the 2014 NASCAR Cup Championship.He doesn't have a victory in 35 races this season, a glitch in the revised championship format that might have purists lamenting on the grave of their...

JOLIET, Ill. — A NASCAR career on the upswing has Dale Earnhardt Jr. sounding content as he nears his 40th birthday."I feel physically and mentally 10 years younger than that," Earnhardt said as he prepared for Sunday's Chase for the Sprint Cup opening...

Jimmie Johnson hasn’t lost his golden horseshoe, much to Kevin Harvick’s chagrin.It was six years ago when late-race fortune enabled Johnson to hold off Harvick for a win at Auto Club Speedway, prompting Harvick to say Johnson’s team, while very good,...

Earlier this year Jimmie Johnson was asked how he would feel if his career ended without his winning a record-tying seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup title.
Johnson, tongue in cheek, replied with a smile: "My life sucks. That would be terrible."
A seventh...

Kevin Harvick stood by his confetti-coated car and used it as a resting spot for a couple of crushed beer cans, when his crew belted out a catchy rallying cry. "I believe that we will win! I believe that we will win! I believe that we will win!" Believe...

Jimmie Johnson’s dominance on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit is unmatched among his contemporaries.
His six Cup championships rank third all time; only legends Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Richard Petty have more, with seven each. Johnson is also the only...

Jimmie Johnson's dominance on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit is unmatched among his contemporaries.
His six Cup championships rank third all time; only legends Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Richard Petty have more with seven each. And Johnson is the only...

DAYTONA BEACH — Kyle Busch was at a nearby hospital, still withering in pain, when Daytona International Speedway president Joie Chitwood offered up a powerful mea culpa in February:
"We're going to fix this. And it starts right now."
Daytona had fouled...

At 3:44 on an August morning in 2007, former NASCAR champion Dale Jarrett suddenly woke from a sound sleep.
"It hit me then," he recalled. "It's time to retire."
Jarrett was 50 at the time. He was struggling to recapture his past glory at the track...

CHARLOTTE – Trevor Bayne.
Remember him?
He won the Daytona 500 in 2011 as a 20-year-old. Youngest winner in the history of the Great American Race. Cool Kid. Fabulous story.
We were all amazed and smitten, conjuring up the ghost of the late Dale...

Jeff Gordon, who changed the face of NASCAR while becoming one of stock-car racing's most accomplished, popular and prosperous drivers, said Thursday this season will be his last as a full-time racer.
"This is the right time," said Gordon, 43, who's...

True confession: I’m a big fan of Jeff Gordon.
As a extremely-talented driver. As a person who treated others with respect. As one of the greatest ambassadors in professional sports.
His annoucement that he will retire as a full-time driver after the...

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart are blood brothers.
In triumph. In tragedy.
They bear-hugged for an extended time in Victory Lane after Harvick held off Ryan Newman to win the 2014 Sprint Cup championship Sunday night. Finally,...

MIAMI - NASCAR has always been about families. Families that stay together. Families that break up.
Look around the garage on any given Sunday and you will see the effects of those fractured relationships.
Ryan Newman was deemed expendable by...

FORT WORTH — Brad Keselowski embraces the dastardly villain role in NASCAR's weekly bloody soap opera. There are no regrets and no apologies, even as his enemies grow exponentially.
It seems everybody wants a piece of him, as NASCAR's "Boys, Have At...